6ix9ine was ordered to pay $250,000 for backing out of a D.C. live performance deal whereas acting at a rival present the identical evening with out telling promoters.

6ix9ine could need to commerce pool events for paid gigs—quick.

Simply weeks after celebrating the tip of his home arrest by slicing off his ankle monitor and cannonballing right into a pool, the controversial rapper has been slapped with a $250,000 invoice for ditching a D.C. live performance.

A federal choose dominated that he breached a signed efficiency settlement when he ghosted the October 2018 present—after which carried out at a competing occasion the identical evening.

The U.S. District Courtroom in D.C. ordered the rapper to pay compensatory damages to Hits Earlier than Fame LLC and After Hours LLC after failing to indicate up for a sold-out October 28, 2018, live performance at Echostage deliberate round Howard College’s homecoming.

In keeping with the criticism, 6ix9ine accepted practically $60,000 in efficiency charges however ghosted promoters and vanished—solely to pop up hours later acting at Powerhouse NJ on the Prudential Middle in Newark.

The courtroom dominated that 6ix9ine violated the phrases of his contract after months of rescheduling, renegotiating, and receiving wire transfers and money—most of it funneled by means of his former supervisor, Kifano “Shotti” Jordan, who was later imprisoned for unrelated prices.

Paperwork present 6ix9ine’s staff stopped speaking with the promoters simply as ticket gross sales surged previous $165,000, VIP tables bought out, and greater than 3,000 followers waited exterior in chilly rain.

One in all his personal brokers even threatened to cancel the occasion weeks earlier than, however days later, 6ix9ine recorded a video hyping the rescheduled gig as a “make-up date for the Howard homecoming”—a clip that was by no means shared publicly.

When the rapper no-showed, Echostage canceled the live performance a half an hour earlier than doorways opened to keep away from a possible riot.

Promoters have been left scrambling to refund all ticket and VIP gross sales whereas being bombarded with threats and trolling throughout social media.

The choose rejected the promoters’ extra claims for defamation and unjust enrichment, citing inadequate proof or conflicting logic, together with 6ix9ine’s personal Instagram rant the place he mentioned “the folks didn’t pay me” and that “the cash by no means got here to me.”

The courtroom concluded the statements have been imprecise and sure focused his Shotti—not the plaintiffs. In the end, the courtroom granted judgment solely on breach of contract, awarding $250,000 in damages.

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